Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-05
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, SATURDAY, MARCH s. 1887

EX-WARDEN HOWARD and other officials
OF the Southern Indiana prison, at Jet1cr-
sonville, and their bondsman, are to be
prosecuted for misconduct. Attorney
General Kitchener is starting the suits.
MORE than two-thrds of the m I'm bers
elected to the new Legislative Assembly
OF New South Wales are free traders.
COMBINE" CLEARY. one If the alleged
"boodle" aldermen of New Y ork city, was
placed on trial on the 2S h.
SEVERAL OF the Senators have arranged
Tor European trips and would be greatly
disguised if any of the appropriate bills
lal 50 as to compel an esura session of the
Flftieth Congress.
A. o. PAYNE, OF Cens1ess,t,p o. traealing Q
salesman for Eppstein & Co. Buffalo,
committed suicide on the 2Sth at the Nc
Donald House, Coshocton, O. He had
been on drunk for several days.
WHILE saving logs near Olena, O, on
the Sth, a large tree fell upon Andrew
Sears and Martin Coleman, dislocating
the neck of the former and crushing the
latter, who died shortly after in great
agony.
d. G. Wilcox, of Bangor, n Y, who was
hurt in the Vermont Central disaster, died
at Hartford, Vt, on the 2Sth, of erysipelas
The total number Of deaths resulting
from the accident is now thirty.
WILLIAM A. WIKADAL, aged forty-six.
resident of Canton, O., committed SUI
eide at the Metropolitan Hotel, Boston, on
the morning of the 28th by cutting his
throat with a pocket knife.
The 1,000 employees at the Briton Iron
and Steel works at Cleveland, O., have
had their wages increased from ten to
| fifteen per cent. The SIX hundred men
who struck at the American wire works
for an advance of ten per cent. are still
out. Both sides are firm, and it looks as
| if the struggle will be long one.
THOMAS BENDER aged nineteen. and a
team Of spirited horses, We're instantly
killed on the 2Sth by the west-bound ex-
press train, on the Pennsylvania railroad,
at what is known as the Morgan Priest
crossing, near Loudonville, 0.
GERMANY is much embarrassed at the
anti-German situation and sentiment in
Alsace-Lorraine, and threatens extreme
restrictive measures of the people.
The reduction in the public debt during
February will amount to about 81, 900, ,009.
The comparatively SIN all reduction is a.
tributed to heavy pension payments dur
ing the month.
MINISTER PENDLEToN expected to sail
from New York on the 3d for his post at
Berlin. This removes him from any
chance of appointment to Cabinet Of
fee or to be an Interstate Commerce
Commissioner.
The bill to prevent the employment OF
convict and alien labor upon public works,
and of convict labor in the preparation of
materials for public works, passed by the
Senate on the 2Sth, had already passed
the House and is now in the hands of the
President
THE steamer Gaelic arrived at San Fran.
cisco on the 28th from Hong Kong via
Honolulu and reports another outbreak of
lava from Mauna-Loa. All the craters
were in great activity when the steamer
left Honolulu.
SECRETARY MANNING, who has had under
consideration trip to England for the
benefit of his health, has decided not TO
take such trip, as he is afraid it might
affect him injuriously H will remain in
Washington few days longer and the
go to New York